An edition of The Second City unscripted (2009)

The Second City unscripted

revolution and revelation at the world-famous comedy theater

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An edition of The Second City unscripted (2009)

The Second City unscripted

revolution and revelation at the world-famous comedy theater

1st ed.
  • 1 Want to read

Descriptions of Chicago's Second City comedy theater group as told to the author by troup members and historical information collected by the author.

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Publisher
Villard
Language
English
Pages
272

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Table of Contents

1959/61: Coffee and comedy, Hanging with Hef, and The birth of a sensation / Alan Arkin, Barbara Harris, Paul Sills
1961/67: Big Apple bound, Naked sonatas, and The reign of King David / Robert Klein, Joan Rivers, David Steinberg, Fred Willard
1967/74: How to speak hippie, Return of the guru, and A bowl full of fuck / John Belushi, Del Close, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Betty Thomas
1973/78: Livin' large with Johnny Toronto, The fury of Murray, and Taking off in the great white north / Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Dave Thomas
1975/84: SCTV : Count Floyd, Johnny LaRue, and a Couple of Hosers, eh / John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas
1975/80: Saturday Night Live, the Brothers Belushi, and A mom away from mom / Jim Belushi, Tim Kazurinsky, Shelley Long, George Wendt
1975/85: Mummy opium, Death of a hero, and The end of an era / Dan Castellaneta, Mary Gross, Richard Kind
1978/91: Triumphs in Toronto, Shake-ups in Chicago, and A van down by the river / Chris Farley, Bonnie Hunt, Mike Myers
1988/95: Out with the old, in with the new, and A sweet talker in sweatpants / Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris
1995/2007: Renaissance on Wells Street, Chaos in Canada, and The falls of giants / Scott Adsit, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Jack McBrayer
2007/present: Offing Obama, Liberal leanings, and A still-beating heart
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264) and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Anecdotes

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792/.09773/11
Library of Congress
PN2277.C42 S4525 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 272 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
272

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24094548M
Internet Archive
secondcityunscri0000thom
ISBN 10
034551422X
ISBN 13
9780345514226
LCCN
2009033132
OCLC/WorldCat
299708856

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18593000W

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